Quote #14568
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying...
Quote #32747
Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they...
Quote #29937
Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is...
Quote #32634
People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and...
Quote #3705
…exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul...
Quote #23694
We do not write because we want to we write because we have to.
Quote #27952
It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict,...
Quote #27629
I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more...
Quote #31351
Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the...
Quote #366
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.